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shoelesshunter

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migrating system to new drive

my installation is lvm2 over luks. I wish to transfer my entire system to a new drive. if I first encrypted the new drive then used

dd if=/dev/<source> of=/dev/<destination>

, would the result be adequate or should I use first set up lvm on the new device then use rsync? would dd preserve my lvm  scheme?

Last edited by shoelesshunter (2015-01-07 16:42:15)

graysky

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Re: migrating system to new drive

I vote for the rsync option.

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clfarron4

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Re: migrating system to new drive

I'd go with rsync as well.

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alphaniner

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Re: migrating system to new drive

It's not clear what <source> and <destination> are, so FYI you'd have to dd the old encrypted device to the new raw device or the old decrypted device to the new decrypted device. But since you've already set up encryption I assume you'd go with the latter.

But I also vote for the rsync method. Just make sure to use the correct flags; there's a wiki page on the topic IIRC.

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